Last month the airplane tested its engines for the first time, with a flight test scheduled to begin by spring of next year.
The company tested its engines in the Santa Susana Mountains, now a cleanup site because of health risks associated with soil contaminated by years of rocket and nuclear testing.
The company is testing its 4.2L engine which, it says, rivals engines nearly twice its size.
The company is already testing its recommendation engine on movies internally, for instance, but has yet to decide how what the final product will be, or whether it will be a B2B or B2C effort.
EcoMotors announced today a $23.5 million series B funding round from Khosla Ventures and Bill Gates that the company will use to build and test its eco-friendly engine, known as an Opposed Piston Opposed Cylinder (OPOC) engine.
Bezos, who was in Florida to make the announcement, said Blue Origin also will test its BE-4 engines at the new launch site.
The car is a preproduction version that G.M. used to test its new V-8 engine.
Another license applicant, Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Tex., test-fired its engine last month, but a spokesman said he did not expect a license soon.
The objectives of the present study are to understand the glider dynamics adopting a CFD approach, fabricate the glider and its variable buoyancy engine and test its trajectory in water and compare it with numerically obtained trajectory in the vertical plane.
"Car engines are far more advanced in terms of technology than ship engines," said Robert Swan, a British polar explorer and environmental campaigner, who has been taking a solar panel-equipped yacht around the world and also testing biofuels in its engine.
